'The Man Who Wasn't There' | 2001

Leave it to the Coen Bros. to do black-and-white when nearly everyone else is doing color. In this case, they had plenty of reasons: The Billy Bob Thornton film is a neo-noir set in 1949.

Leave it to the Coen Bros. to do black-and-white when nearly everyone else is doing color. In this case, they had plenty of reasons: The Billy Bob Thornton film is a neo-noir set in 1949. (Melinda Sue Gordon / USA Films)

Leave it to the Coen Bros. to do black-and-white when nearly everyone else is doing color. In this case, they had plenty of reasons: The Billy Bob Thornton film is a neo-noir set in 1949.